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Diary - Monday 19 September 2005
19 September 2005
Just one day remains until Town's big game with a big club in a not very big cup, which means there's very little time left for them to introduce a rule that if your dad was a season ticket holder last time Spurs visited Blundell Park then you can buy a ticket for a seat number ending in 1 if you turn up at the club shop on a blue moped between 9:46 and 10:03 tomorrow morning. Not that they need to, though, because only 300 seats remain unsold for Tuesday night's League Cup game against Tottenham, and they're just ones with a "restricted view", apparently. Seems unnecessary to point that out, really, since the whole of the ground other than the Upper Stones offers pretty much a restricted view; but since the standard of football on offer began its inexorable decline when Alan Buckley was sacked in 2000, not being able to see the pitch at Blundell Park is no longer the disadvantage it once was.
If you're after team news for the Spurs game, then you're out of luck, mister, cos there isn't any yet. The Diary notes, however, that the presence of aristocracy tomorrow night has brought humble BP to the attention of mighty global news agency Reuters, and I will link their preview because it refers to the fourth division instead of League Two, and the reporter is called Trevor Huggins, which is sort of cute. The piece doesn't really say anything useful, but nor does Ainsley Harriot, and it never did him any harm.
From one unappreciated knockout tournament to another, and once Tottenham have been sent crashing out of the League Cup tomorrow night, Town - as you will doubtless be aware by now - will have to turn their attentions to the Big Lorries Trophy, in which they will face Morecambe at home, probably on Tuesday 18 October. One of the consistently strongest sides in the non-League system, Morecambe turned fully professional a year or two ago and have recorded top ten finishes in all but two seasons since the Conference was established in 1995. The shortest odds on them claiming this season's title are 7/1 with William Hill, who are yet to offer a spread bet on the number of times Town's official website uses Morecambe and Wise references in headlines between now and the end of next month.
From Morecambe to another comedian, then, and former GTFC 'manager' Lennie Lawrence is apparently in the running for the vacant job at third division Bristol City. The West Country side have endured a miserable time of it since sacking Danny Wilson in 2004 as punishment for taking the team to two consecutive third-place finishes and, if Lawrence is being seriously considered to take over, are now looking to compound their blunders by running up millions of pounds of unsustainable debt.